Head Men’s and Women’s Soccer Coach Michael McBride

HEAD MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SOCCER COACH MICHAEL MCBRIDE

Michael McBride enters his third season as the Blinn College head men’s and women’s soccer coach. He has coached at the collegiate level for 21 years. The Blinn women’s team concluded the 2020-21 season with a programbest 6-3 record and claimed a spot in the NJCAA Region XIV Women’s Soccer Tournament for the first time in the program’s three-year history. The Blinn men’s team finished the 2020-21 season with a 6-8 record (5-7 in conference) and claimed a spot in the NJCAA Region XIV Men’s Soccer Tournament for the third time in its three-year history. In addition, the women’s and men’s soccer teams were named 2020-21 NJCAA Academic Teams of the Year. McBride holds a 248-139-21 record (.641 winning percentage) as a men's and women's soccer coach. He has earned 13 coach of the year honors and 11 of his players have moved on to play professionally, including one player who played for Canadian men’s national team (senior team). Prior to Blinn, McBride spent three seasons as the head women's soccer coach at Nicholls State University. Under McBride's direction, the Colonels earned the Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award in 2016, 2017, and 2018; earned the highest grade-point average in the 21-year history of the program; and clocked the highest annual community engagement hours in program history. Prior to Nicholls State, McBride spent 16 seasons (2001-2016) as the head men's soccer coach for Notre Dame College. For eight years (20092016), he also served as the college's Assistant Athletic Director for Community Engagement. McBride started the men's soccer program at Notre Dame College in 2001 and helped it transition from the NAIA level to the NCAA Division II ranks. Under his direction, the Falcons posted a 213-76-16 overall record (.737), the highest winning percentage in program history. McBride's team won the American Mideast North Division championship in its second season (2002), then won four more division championships (2004-07), three conference titles (2008, 2009, and 2010), and made four NAIA National Championship appearances (2005, 2008, 2009, and 2010). In 2010, McBride guided Notre Dame to a 23-1-0 record and the program's first National Championship Final. He has coached 25 All-Americans, 23 All-Academic athletes, two American Midwest Conference (AMC) North Players of the Year, an AMC Freshman of the Year, an AMC Player of the Year, two Mountain East Conference MEC) Players of the Year, an NAIA National Player of the Year (2010), and an Independents Collegiate Athletic Association (ICAA) National Player of the Year (2011). Before entering the collegiate coaching ranks, McBride was a Professional Footballers Association Community Coach from 1992-94. In addition, he was an assistant coach at Walsh University from 1997-2000. Prior to his coaching career with Walsh, he was a scholarship athlete for the Cavaliers from 1995-1998. During his playing career, he earned AllAMC and All-Region honors and was an NAIA All-American nominee. Off the field, McBride was an NAIA All-America Scholar Athlete. McBride holds his United States Soccer Federation (USSF) Senior "A" License, the United Soccer Coaches of America (USC) Premier Diploma (distinguished pass), Level 1, 2 & 3 Goalkeeping Diplomas and Director of Coaching Diploma. In addition, McBride also earned both a Preliminary and Preparatory Badge from the English Football Association. He earned his bachelor's degree in physical education and a Master's in Education from Walsh. He earned a second master's degree in education from Notre Dame College in spring 2013. McBride's wife, Becky, is Blinn's Vice Chancellor for Student Services. They have two daughters, Roisin and Alannah.

COACH MCBRIDE CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

21 YEARS COACHING AT THE COLLEGIATE LEVEL .641 WINNING PERCENTAGE (248-139-21) 13 COACH OF THE YEAR AWARDS

11 PLAYERS PLAYED PROFESSIONALLY

N0. 9 BLINN MEN’S SOCCER PROGRAM - BEST NATIONAL RANKING 5 USC COLLEGE TEAM ETHICS AND SPORTSMANSHIP AWARDS 4 USC COLLEGE TEAM ACADEMIC AWARDS

25 ALL-AMERICANS

23 ALL-ACADEMIC ATHLETES

7PLAYERS OF THE YEAR, INCLUDING TWO NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE YEAR

SOCCER ASSISTANTS

ALEXANDRIA JACKSON

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SOCCER ASSISTANT

Alexandria Jackson enters her third season as a Blinn College men’s and women’s soccer assistant coach. In 2020-21, she was named to the United Soccer Coaches 30 Under 30 Program, a year-long education and mentorship program designed to support up-and-coming members of the coaching profession who are 30 years of age or younger. During her first season with the team in 2019, the Blinn men’s team finished the 2019 season with a program-best 10-7-1 overall record. The women’s team finished with a 6-9-1 overall record, 4-7-1 conference record, and received a 2019 College Team Ethics and Sportsmanship Award from the United Soccer Coaches Association. The women’s soccer team also was named a 2019-20 NJCAA Academic Team of the Year for maintaining a 3.15 GPA. Prior to Blinn, Jackson served as head coach of the Phoenix Rising club soccer teams. She oversaw four teams that finished the season with records above .500 and made Arizona State Cup appearances. In addition, all members of the U17 team signed letters of intents to 20 NCAA Division I and II teams. Prior to Rising Phoenix, Jackson spent five seasons coaching the Waldorf University women’s soccer team. From 2014-2016, she served as an assistant coach and was named head coach in 2017. She helped lead the Warriors to North Star Conference Tournament appearances from 2014 through 2017. While there, she coached 30 all-conference players, five Champions of Character, and 35 scholar athletes. Jackson was a four-year collegiate soccer player for NCAA Division I Northwestern State University. As a freshman, she led the team in game-winning goals (4) and helped lead the Lady Demons to a conference championship. As a sophomore, Jackson started 10 games while logging 700 minutes. In her junior season, Jackson appeared in 16 matches and started 15 times to accumulate more than 1,000 minutes of play. As a senior, Jackson started and played in all 19 matches for a total of 1,715 minutes. Playing a pivotal defensive role, she assisted on two goals. She was the team captain in 2012 and 2013 and a four-time scholar athlete for the Southland Conference. Jackson played professional soccer for the St. Catharine’s Jets in Ontario, Canada, and FFC Montabaur in Germany. Jackson graduated from Northwestern State in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in health and exercise science. In 2016, she earned a Master of Arts in organizational leadership from Columbia Southern University. She also holds her National Diploma, Advanced National Diploma, and U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) C License. Rudy Roediger enters his first season as a Blinn College men’s and women’s soccer assistant coach. He brings approximately 20 years of coaching and scouting experience, including 10 years in the NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA. Prior to Blinn, he served as an assistant coach for Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., for one season. In 2021, Roediger helped the Golden Grizzlies to the most Horizon League wins in program history while producing the program’s first Horizon League Player of the Year and first Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy semifinalist, Noah Jensen. Prior to Oakland, Roediger assisted with the start of the men’s soccer program and served as an admissions counselor at Oklahoma Panhandle State University. In 2018, Roediger became the only full-time head men’s and women’s soccer coach at Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pa. Prior to his tenure at Lackawanna, Roediger spent three seasons at the helm of Andrew College in Cuthbert, Ga. The Fighting Tigers posted a 10-8-0 record in 2015, an eight-win improvement from the previous season, which made Andrew the second most-improved win/loss NJCAA Division I men’s soccer program in the nation that season. In 2013-14, Roediger served as the head recruiter and assistant men’s soccer coach at Montreat College (N.C.). For his work with international students off the pitch, Montreat College Admissions Department awarded Roediger its Servant Leadership Award.In 2012, Roediger helped guide the Bluefield College (Va.) women to the third most-improved win/loss team in the NAIA. Roediger earned his first collegiate coaching at Bethany College. Roediger became the 1994 NCAA Division III National Champion’s recruiting assistant, where he helped secure two players, Russell Gaither and Cameron Ward, who would go on to earn All-PAC honors in their freshman season. In addition to his collegiate coaching career, Roediger spent time coaching in the Antra Lyga, where he became the first American to coach professional soccer in Lithuania in 2017. Roediger has served as a national team scout for the British Virgin Islands since 2015. Roediger had a two-year stint as a coach at South Webster High School (Ohio) and spent two years as a coach and athletic director at Piketon High School in Piketon (Ohio). He also has experience coaching club and Olympic Development Program across the country. He has coached over 100 high school, youth, and ODP players who earned NCAA and NAIA scholarships. A graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, Roediger was a part of the 1999 team that won the All-Mid-Central Conference Tournament championship before losing in the NAIA regional final. IWU finished fourth at the National Christian College Athletic Association National Tournament. Roediger holds coaching and scouting licenses from United Soccer Coaches, United States Soccer Federation, and the Football Association of England.

RUDY ROEDIGER

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SOCCER ASSISTANT SOCCER